Watson & Band's qualified group of professionals has a wide range of expertise and experience that allows us to deliver a nuanced and personalized service to address each of our clients' specific needs. In addition to offering a full range of legal services relating to the acquisition, enforcement and prosecution of intellectual property assets, we also assist our clients with commercial and IP litigation, investment, corporate affairs, banking, financing, insurance, real property, commercial transactions, taxation, employment, and numerous other interests in China.

We also provide detailed and comprehensive legal advice covering every step in business operations.

To meet particular needs and requirements of our clients, Watson & Band is unmatched in its ability to provide consistent, professional and innovative legal and commercial advice. It does so through its long-term cooperative relationships with government authorities and professional intermediary agencies.

IP services offered by Watson & Band encompass the fields of chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, machinery, electronics, computers & telecommunications, optical physics, design and trademarks/copyrights. Each division has been established based on the technical specialties of our staff members in their respective fields. They consist of not only bilingual patent and trademark agents with rich experience in their fields but also lawyers, technicians, expert counselors and translators.

IP services offered by Watson & Band encompass the fields of chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, machinery, electronics, computers & telecommunications, optical physics, design and trademarks/copyrights. Each division has been established based on the technical specialties of our staff members in their respective fields. They consist of not only bilingual patent and trademark agents with rich experience in their fields but also lawyers, technicians, expert counselors and translators.

Taking into account clients’ needs for IP services, Watson & Band has established normative and detailed processing rules, and has developed an automatic electronic monitoring system to ensure procedural immediacy, high efficiency, superb quality and tight security for IP services, designed to avoid potential conflicts of interest and procedural errors.

To ensure the quality and efficiency of our services, we have established specialized departments based on the types of services we offer including patent litigation department, trademark and copyright litigation department, civil and commercial litigation department and evidence collection and investigation group. Professional attorneys and designated employees are assigned to particular departments based on their areas of expertise, so that intimate inter-departmental cooperation can be effectively carried out by well-designed litigation and arbitration strategies that offer maximum protection to our clients’ legitimate rights and interests through efficient teamwork.

Over the past several decades, Watson & Band has represented clients in a multitude of influential and representative litigation and arbitration cases, many of which have been successfully resolved as landmark precedents in their respective fields – the first patent infringement case between two foreign parties, the first trademark infringement case in which a disputed trademark was recognized as a “well-known trademark ” by a court, the first breach of contract case between two foreign parties over a sports sponsorship contract, and other cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration cases involving both domestic and foreign companies.

Watson & Band’s professional personal wealth management team is dedicated to personal wealth legal risk management, litigation and non-litigation services for family businesses, celebrities and high net worth individuals, etc. By working closely with wealth managers including banks, insurance companies, accounting firms as well as domestic and foreign trusts and immigration agencies, we offer tailored private wealth management and inheritance schemes as well as professional legal services to family businesses. We provide highly efficient and reliable legal services and solutions from the client’s perspective, thereby winning our clients’ trust.

Marriage and Family Practice

Watson & Band’s marriage and family practice began offering marital and family related legal services early on, and has since acquired significant influence and a strong reputation through frequent media exposure in Shanghai. This practice is composed of attorneys who possess solid theoretical foundations as well as extensive practical experience. Our marriage and family practice covers areas ranging from premarital planning and marriage maintenance to divorce, child care, adoption, international marriage and migrant education.

Inheritance Practice

Watson & Band is not only well-equipped to provide wealth management services, but is also capable of offering customized inheritance plans based on each client's personal needs. Our inheritance services include will design, drafting and witnessing; will trusts and philanthropic projects; will execution; inheritance management, investigation and litigation; family business inheritance planning; and cross-border inheritance issues involving foreign countries as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

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